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Extreme Weather 5/29/2013
Flood in Alaska
A massive ice jam on the Yukon River sent a flood of water into Galena, Alaska, inundating most of the town and forcing the evacuation of nearly the entire population. “I think the majority of the folks have been evacuated from the village,” Dave Streubel, National Weather Service hydrologist, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday afternoon as floodwaters approached the last lifeline to the isolated village – the airport. Water was backed up 40 to 50 miles behind the large ice jam at a sharp bend in the river known as Bishop Point, 15 miles downriver from Galena, and most of the town was flooded, Streubel said. “Pretty much the entire village is under water, except for an area around the old Air Force runway, which the Air Force had built a dike around, and the water is up to 6 inches from going over the dike and flooding the runway,” he said. Gov. Sean Parnell flew in to survey the damage Tuesday and called in the Alaska National Guard to help evacuate the estimated 75 residents still in town.
“We expect the flooding to become worse before the waters start to recede,” Parnell, a Republican, said in a statement. “Ensuring the safety of those impacted by the flooding remains my top priority.” Many towns face annual flooding from spring snowmelt, and the isolated villages of interior Alaska often see complications from the huge ice jams that form on mighty rivers such as the Yukon, Alaska’s longest. Galena, a mainly Athabaskan Indian village about 270 miles west of Fairbanks by air, has many elevated houses to cope with the frequent floods it faces. But Alaska officials said that this flooding was much worse than in typical years and that the town was without water or power. “Some of the residents of the village were saying originally that this was the worst flood since 1945, and now they’re saying this is the worst flood ever,” Streubel said.
Problems occurred, he said, as a result of late snowfall followed by speedy warming. “We had a very cold spring, and in fact we even had snow in that part of the state as of eight days ago. And now in the past four or five days, they’re up close to 70 and 80 degrees. So all that snowmelt has been entering the Yukon River, and it’s just made it that much worse,” Streubel said. Jeremy Zidek, spokesman for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said National Guard troops were working with para-rescue crews aboard two large cargo planes and two helicopters to help evacuate those who had earlier declined to leave.
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Flash Flood Illinois
Police and rescuers scrambled into action Tuesday evening when a deluge of rain resulted in flash flooding that stranded motorists, blocked streets and pushed flood waters into places like Sandburg Mall and Carl Sandburg College. Tuesday’s rain, paired with the week-long series of storms the area has experienced, will likely mark 2013 as the rainiest spring in more than a century. Police responded to at least 30 stranded motorists Tuesday evening as water gushed onto streets and, once again, into people’s homes. Before the thunderstorm started Tuesday afternoon – which resulted in a flash flood designation for the area – Galesburg was two inches from the 20.36-inch record set in 2009, coming in at 18.3 inches, said state climatologist Jim Angel.
But a torrential downpour beginning around 6 p.m. Tuesday resulted in almost 3 inches of rain in a 90-minute period, although that number is not official, said a National Weather Service official. A trained weather spotter reported 2.95 inches falling as of 6:37 p.m. Tuesday, and more rain is on the way, said NWS meteorologist Eric Laufenberg. Anecdotal reports had rainfall at anywhere from 5 to 6 inches in parts of the city and Knox County. Rescue teams responded to almost a dozen reports of stranded vehicles, including a water rescue on McClure Street where the driver exited the vehicle before firefighters reached the vehicle, unbeknownst to the rescuers. On other roads, mainly Seminary and Fremont streets, drivers abandoned their stalled vehicles and headed for higher ground. “We got dumped on so hard, so fast,” said Galesburg Police Sgt. Lee McCone. “The water had nowhere to go.” With such a high volume of calls, the Galesburg Police Department called in additional officers and an extra dispatcher, McCone said. County officials also came to aid the city employees. No injuries were reported, McCone said.
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Tornado Nebraska
Residents of the south-central town of Edgar spent Tuesday surveying and cleaning up the damage caused by a tornado that hit around 7:30 Monday night. The tornado, which has been given a preliminary rating of EF-2, had heavy rains, hail, and winds estimated at 60 miles per hour. It left the town without electricity, forcing residents to wait until Tuesday morning to see the full extent of the damage. One of the hardest hit residents was Lynne Howard. The more than 100-year-old barn where her grandparents first met at a dance is now no more than a pile of rubble. “My barn and my trees are gone. And it’s a loss, it’s a major loss. It will never be the same,” Howard said. Throughout the southern part of Edgar, there were similar scenes of roofless buildings, downed trees, shredded grain bins, and twisted power lines. “I was devastated, I was in shock.,” said Howard. “During the storm I couldn’t see because the rain was pouring so hard and then it hailed. And I couldn’t tell, so then the sun came out and I walked out on the front porch, and I just started crying, hyperventilating. I’ve never been in shock before.” But officials said fortunately, there were no major injuries. It’s a sentiment that residents share. “I feel very fortunate that I didn’t get hurt and that the house is standing,” said Howard, who had missed the sirens and was in her kitchen when a tree crashed into her house, just five feet from where she was sitting. “I can replace bins and machinery, that’s easy to do, but you can’t replace life, and that’s more important,” said Wayne Beck, who lost four grain bins to the tornado, among other things. Authorities said now, it’s just a matter of cleaning up. “We’re cleaning up the streets, getting tree limbs cleaned off the streets. We started on the north side of town because it was the least damaged, and we’re going to start working from the north to the south,” said Edgar Fire Chief Gene Babcock. The Red Cross is on-site to provide help, and residents who received less damage are turning to help their neighbors who got hit worse.
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Flood Iowa
Cherokee County was hit hard by a flash flood that developed from heavy rains on Sunday and early Monday morning. There was so much flooding that on Monday a no travel advisory was issued in Cherokee County due to several bridges which were reported as damaged and county roads that were partially or completely under water. Cherokee County Engineer Dave Shanahan reported to the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that there may not be a road in Cherokee County that wasn’t affected by this flash flooding. He stated that there were a lot of culverts that were undermined and most of the bridge approaches were washed out a foot or so. Three bridges have had their decks washed out and two other bridges were still underwater as of Tuesday morning.
Shanahan reported that they are currently going bridge- by- bridge and doing an inspection on all of them. He stated that there has been a lot of erosion damage, including the bridges along Mill Creek. “We’ve got some work to do ahead of us, but we’re lucky that nobody got hurt. And we’re thankful for that. We’ll fix what we can fix and we’ll go from there.” Cherokee City Administrator Don Eikmeier reported that there were at least three basements in Cherokee that collapsed due to the storm, and residents are asked to be extremely cautious in working in the basement if it has been partially or fully flooded. Eikmeier said Monday afternoon that more than 300 homes in Cherokee had basement flooding, damaged basements, or backed- up sewers, with additional reports still coming in to City Hall. Railroad Creek, which runs through the heart of Cherokee, spilled over its banks and flooded several homes and businesses.
The creek, normally a trickle, once again was the major culprit in the flash flooding ,as it feeds into the City through the Cherokee Golf Course and winds southeast to empty into the Little Sioux River at Wescott Park. The creek swelled enough south of the Fareway Store to swamp the first block of West Cherry Street – approximately 30 feet above the creek bed – and slam a wall of water six feet high into a series of businesses, including the Subway Restaurant, State Farm Insurance, and Swain’s Motor Company, before flooding several homes near Euclid Avenue and other side streets. Liquor on The Corner on East Main Street, which sits next to the creek, was also flooded as the waters spread. The City has received many questions regarding the disconnection of electrical service in homes that are partially or fully flooded. Mid American Energy advises that the decision to disconnect electrical power to the home is that of the occupants.
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Sandstorm California
The California Highway Patrol says a sandstorm north of Los Angeles led to several car wrecks that injured six people and forced a freeway shutdown Officer Jerry Nelson says the sandstorm kicked up at on the Antelope Valley Freeway at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Officers at first accompanied cars through the dust cloud, but soon had to shut down the entire freeway in both directions for about four hours. The Los Angeles County Fire Department took five people to the hospital with minor-to-moderate injuries. A sixth person was treated at the scene. Fire officials say visibility in the area was less than 6 feet at times.
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Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-extreme-weather-5-29-2013
